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cliffhgr: MAME ROM Information.

You are Cliff and your girlfriend Clarissa has been taken away by the evil Count Draco and will be forced to marry him unless Cliff can save her.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80

Sound Chips : Custom, Discrete circuitry

Players : 2

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1983.

This was Stern's first laser disk game.

Cliff Hanger uses animation from the Japanese manga series, Lupin III. Most of the animation came from 'Lupin III - Castle of Cagliostro' and a couple of scenes, including the helicopter chase and the hanging scene came from 'Lupin III - Mystery of Mamo'.

Even though Cliff Hanger is adapted from Lupin the 3rd, it does change the names of the main characters:

Lupin is renamed Cliff.

Daisuke Jigen is renamed Jeff.

Goemon Ishikawa is simply renamed Samurai.

Chip Sbronga holds the official record for this game with 1,310,000 points on August 11, 2003.

- 0.132u5: Added Laser Disc image - Game now playable. Aaron Giles made a couple of minor tweaks to the Cliff Hanger driver. Fixed interrupt timing (was not taking into account interlacing) to fix up glitches in playback and ensure the disk test passes. Added SHA1 and marked the game as working. Added mechanism for the laserdisc core to return 0 for the Philips codes if video is squelched. Updated the Gottlieb and Cliff Hanger drivers to request it this way, since they decode externally.

- 0.127: Aaron Giles added DISK_REGIONS to all laserdisc drivers. Changed visible area to 704x480 and VSync to 59.940052.

- 0.125u9: Aaron Giles fixed access violation when taking a snapshot.

- 0.111u5: Aaron Giles removed gross TMS9928a configuration in place of more standard techniques. Updates the Cliffhanger and sg1000a drivers accordingly. Changed visible area to 720x241 and VSync to 59.940060 Hz.

- 0.111u4: Ernesto Corvi added Cliff Hanger (Stern Electronics 1983) and Cliff Hanger (Alt). Also added support for the Pioneer PR-8210 laserdisc player. R. Belmont fixed TMS9928 so it recalculates the pattern mask when its dependancies change so we don't end up in weird half-modes.